MTU: The Transport Museum Paris Doesn't Know It Has 

4:24 "How hard can it be to drive one of these things?" New headline: "Paris Transport Museum metro fire!"

Outrageous pedantry is such a beautiful phrase.

Ah, yes, the tram that operated in the Netherlands, was built in Belgium and is currently located in France, at the Urban Transport Museum - which is run by the Association of the Museum of Urban, Interurban and Rural Transport. All of which stemmed from the idea of a Parisian Transport Museum (but not in Paris). Just as intricate as the French language itself. Well played, mes cousins d'outre-Alpes

If I could give an extra like for the piano rendition of "O, o, Den Haag" (lit. "Oh, Oh, The Hague", basically a love song to the city) whilst showing the Dutch tram I would. However, you got my like at "and _obviously_ we're going to catch the bus".

A Paris transport museum not in Paris, missing part of the collection and only open at third Saturday of the month. Can't get more French that that LOL! :D

Those the Hague trams have been sold to museums in many countries. There are two in the Hannover Tram Museum, Germany. Another one is now active in Belgium. The English National Tramway Museum also has one. Lastly the National Capital Trolley Museum near Washington DC owns one of these trams.

A transport museum was once planned at Gare de Lyon, just next to the current ligne 14 station. That's why there is a large empty space on one side of the station, which has finally been filled with a nice tropical garden. The idea was cancelled because building a track between the museum and the existing metro system would have been extremely expensive.

I am living nearby since 25 years, and I had never heard of it before. I've discovered it today and... it's open tomorrow and the day after too ! It must not be a coincidence but a sign from above ! Thanks Tim !

Tim, there's also Ademas, which has its own private collection of Paris Metros and is on the other side of the region in Versailles. They are located in the Matelots military camp. They also have huge steam-powered rail cranes. Surely you can get in touch with them and get a tour.

I was just getting over the “strict no smoking policy” when you hit me with the “surprisingly accurate sculpture of a banana” and “… no that doesn’t explain it either.”. 😂

Came for the museum, stayed for the Thomas & Friends music. Fantastic video as always!

a) Very nice video, thank you b) One complaint: more video of the tram model layout. At least they can run. c) As a volunteer at a trolley(tram to you across the pond) I can understand the difficulties in running an operating museum. d) I remember seeing those open platform buses running in Paris in the late fifties. Yes, I'm old. 😜

Another plug for Mulhouse's museums, another actual laugh-out-loud at "you're never more than five metres from an acronym", and a passing appreciation for the old Strasbourg tram glimpsed at 6:17.

Who doesn’t like a transport museum?

I chuckled when it dawned on me which song you played during the tram from The Hague Part 🎶 " oh oh Den Haag" 🎶 Keep the vlogs coming !

A museum (to quote Dr Strangelove ) ‘… loses the whole reason if you don’t tell anyone, Why did you keep it a secret, WHY didn’t you tell the world!’

I remember visiting this museum in the mid-90s when it was still located at Porte Dorée in Paris. Back in the days it was run by enthousiastic volunteers who would drive vintage buses to get you from the metro station to the museum. I guess nothing except the location has changed in ... a quarter of a century. Vive la France! And merci Tim for this new great video!

Isn't the metro afraid of daylight? Or do they keep it in a special corner, surrounded by crosses and garlic to prevent it running away?

3:40 I'm actually watching this from Den Haag now. Not in Statenkwartier though. Anyway, Den Haag also has an excellent public transport museum that you'd love, Tim. And in summer they actually ride through the city with their vintage trams.

I see other people have already mentionned that Mulhouse has a great train museum, but there is also a nice car museum there and a museum about electricity, so it might be worth a trip!

Merci. Je suis un "geek" des transports en commun et je n'avais jamais entendu parler de ce musée. I really enjoyed your channel, keep the good work. Thanks again

This channel just makes my heart so happy, this is definitely going on my bucket list ❤️

3:29 the PCC trolley! I love those things! I forgot that some of them were built outside the US

The accordian version of the On The Buses theme was inspired! (likewise, Thomas The Tank Engine)

2:26 green Saviem bus on the right, I used to own and live one of those back in my new age traveller days. 2 speed auto meant it had a top speed of 50 ish kph. I bought it a s it is a standing bus so good headroom, but only test drove it around the bus yard and didn't know its top speed, still, i put 14, 000 km on it over 3 years. Paid 500 euro, and just changed the oil the whole time I owned it.

You're totally right that there should be more of this kind of museum in and around Paris. Near me in Warwickshire, there's the Coventry Transport Museum, British Motor Museum, and the Midland Air Museum within 30 minutes. The London Transport Museum isn't the best known of those in the capital, but it is in Covent Garden! Pretty central compared to the Paris one!

Your the only VLOG that really make me feel like I am being a tourist. Please keep up the good work.

Hi, I'm so happy that you give some exposure to this wholesome museum from my home town. You would be surprise by how little people know about it even in the city :)

I was about to say "how come I've never heard about this?" I guess I gotta use the transport to visit the transport museum

I was just thinking today how I missed your “Hello and bonjour”. It always has the ability to make me happy (plus I know that I can enjoy a wonderful video).

Hello and Bonjour ! Paris Transport Museum was in Paris "few" years ago ... I visited it as a child. Let's say we won't speak about my age ^_^ It's a super museum and I took many pictures, I spent a lot of pellicules (we say we won't speak about my age). once again thanks for this wonderful video ...

Yay! New Tim videos have become one of life’s great pleasures for me. Always fascinating, always entertains, always pedantic - which is the best way to be! Tim is the best narrator on RU-vid, too, and you get fun, exciting music as a bones. It just doesn’t get better than this.

Actually spat my coffee out when he said “this, surprisingly accurate sculpture of a banana 🍌 “....! Love the irreverence as always, and glad they had 2005 “Tim” bus to reward your journey with!

If we are ever allowed to go to France again, that's definitely on my bucket list. Actually, I love amtuir's website - it is a real time sink, it's really, really good. Next best thing to being there.....

Eeeeek that bus!!! Just amazingly cool. All the buses! Thanks for sharing this video/adventure with me, much appreciated. 🙂🐿

Notice the Playdays/Playbus (Children's BBC) cover at the beginning 😄

Great video! It was worth the wait! Thanks Tim!

Tim, your videos about urban transit and urban oddities are my absolute favourite! Please never stop making these videos, you are my #1 France urban transit youtuber and I love the flair you put into your videos!

Thank you for taking us to another fun place. I needed that more than I thought today.

I love this. One of the funniest AND most informative AND most heart-warming videos I've ever seen!

What a great find! A nice collection of vintage equipment which will hopefully grow into a more accessible venue. Another terrific tour of trains and trams by Tim Traveller. I noticed a notice inside one tram, "defense de fumer et de cracher." I recall seeing vintage signs to that effect in Australian transit situations; apparently public spitting had to be pointedly called to task.

The best back ground song ever when talking about the Dutch tram!! Ow ow Den Haag, mooie stad achter de duinen.. :) :). Big kudos to you Tim for finding that one out!

What a magnificent collection and a terrific museum. Thanks for making this video and ALL your videos. I eagerly await each one! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

One of your best ever, Tim!

Denver has the Forney Museum of Transportation, a small and underrated museum housing vintage cars, buses, several engines, and multiple types of wagon. Even a few small planes. It was once housed within the old trolley car powerhouse near downtown, but moved when that building was converted to an REI outdoor flagship store.

I don’t know why but watching your videos makes me smiling and kind of lighthearted every time :) Thanks a lot for that in these hard times. Wish I could go to the MTU sometime!

These old French buses are very charming to look at. I love the slightly crazy designs. Although London has a Transport Museum, you have to travel to Acton Depot to see the buses - and lots of signs and a few tube trains. But the most special thing is that the old buses are just sleeping. One time, during a major strike when almost no buses were running, they just got lots of antique buses out and put them into service. That was just spectacular. It was a foggy morning and seeing a Green Line single decker from the 50s emerge from the fog was special.

My favorite laid-back Tim ✅❤️

Tim, if you’re ever in California, the San Francisco cable car barn is a must see. It has lots of history, but even better, it has the actual cables that pull the cars!

Charming museum. I love transport museums. I've been to one in Buenos Aires that operates on weekends. They include a half hour tours in some of their lovingly restored trams from different eras. The one I rode on was from 1912. It was a blast.

Things I appreciated on top of the usual fantastic video content. Your rendition of Playdays. Your district line mask. 👌

Thanks for such a lovely video. Having told to self-isolate for 10 days, there was a glimpse of the many things to visit in the (near) future!

Great video. Love it. Thank you for the subtitles

That Dutch tram looked vaguely familiar. Come visit the Nederlands Spoorwegmuseum in Utrecht. You’ll love it. There is also the Louwman Museum in The Hague, which displays vintage cars.

2:49 reminds me of that episode of Dad's Army, where Jone's van was modified to run on gas

thank u for not stretching the vid to 8m, the minimum midroll length. this is (one reason) why your chanel is heading for the stratosphere. seems most youtubers haven't even got the memo that it's been 8m since 2018, so they still stretch vids to 10m

Next time in Paris, will go. Great transport museums in Coventry UK and Invercargill NZ.

encroyable! again a great video! and yes i like your idea of one big transport museum in Paris !

Your videos tend to make a bad day better, even if just for a little while. Thank you for making them

6:24 Oh look, those even are the original horses!

It’s nice that the antiques are still in use

If you want a car museum in France, we have the Musée Automobile Reims Champagne in Reims, 45 minutes from Paris.

Hi Tim, thanks for another glorious video.

What's quite interesting about the yellow tram (I see it's already been noted by others in the comments) is that the design is quite an interesting thing from a historic viewpoint- it represents the final chapter in the history of the USA's attempt to bring the streetcar into the modern era. I highly recommend learning about the history of the President's Conference Committee streetcar. They were unable to win the fight against the shift away from electrified public transit, but the design and technology has left a legacy, and they were overall highly successful. Many outlasted their expected service lives, entering service in the 40s and early 50s, and remaining in use until as late as the mid 80s. The more modern Light Rail Vehicles that replaced them even took some inspiration from their successful design, especially obvious on the TTC's CLRV and the MBTA's Type 7 LRV.

Those old Parisian buses were a favourite of Inspector Joules Maigret, because he could stand on the open platform to smoke his pipe. Mentioned in several Simenon books.

Excellent as always.

"Obviously we're going to catch the bus." Me, taking one look at that bus: ...yes. That thing is gorgeous.

totally get the space issue for these museums. In Denmark, when the last steam engines were decommissioned in the 60s, it was decided that they had to keep one runnable sample of each model and a railway museum was set up in the big roundhouse in Odense. While that place is pretty big, trains take up a lot of space and the building just isn't big enough, so they have to store trains and wagons in various sheds all over the country and every year move equipment back and forth to swap out what's on display at the museum. They're supposed to take over an old freight yard that's no longer used so they can centralize where they keep all the equipment, but museums for any kind of vehicle really requires an awful lot of space

brilliant, as always ...... thnaks

tks for the tip! I would say you should go to air & space museum at the Bourget, but it's better know

As always, an intermittent, humorous contribution. - Cheers, Heinz

3:41 Happy memories ! I used to take the line 12 to the beach or the station all the time !

I immediately gave a thumbs-up for the outrageous pedantry ❤️

This is brilliant, as ever. Thanks. I stumbled across a volunteer run transport exhibition when I was in Berlin a few years ago. Was on very similar lines (no pun intended!), opened one day a month. Couldn't believe my luck when I found that. Wish I could remember where it was exactly.

I wonder if the hovertrains in the Jean Bertin collection, and the mystery Citirama bonkers bus could both join this collection...!

Thanks Tim. Excellent as always. I visited the museum when it was at a previous site. It was excellent, but it had some British exhibits which it now doesn't have. A Glasgow tram which I think is back in Scotland and an AEC RT," Summer Holiday" bus, which I think also got thrown back over the channel. Can't imagine why they'd do that!! Oh hold on...I DO remember. There was a brand new Berliet- Renault double decker bus there that looked like it was being launched. The " old and the new", sort of deal, which is quite common. Nope. The curator told me, "Non. It ees an exhibeet". I asked why as it looked superb. He agreed. He said..".Joost look at eet. ". No one would ever use zem. Zey got scrapped, except zis one". I asked why, again.?. "Eet iz simpull. It just looks ....too British." We are mad.. but we hate you SO much, they'd wait an hour in the rain for an old draughty wooden seated single decker, than EVER set foot on that totally French built, but British looking, double decker. He agreed they were all NUTS!! I shook my head and walked away. True story.

The Cité du Train in Mulhouse is also worth a visit. It's the heritage museum of SNCF and houses *a ton* of french trains from all areas. They also have one of the old Parisian metros.

Excellent, thank you.

No car museum and no train museum in Île de France, but both the automobile and railway museums in Mulhouse are absolute world class and definitely worth the trip (three Michelin stars).

I love the TIM bus.

Awesome as usual Tim. Greetings from the high plains of Texas.

What a gem! I know what I'll be visiting next time I'm near Paris.

I appreciate the Playbus and Thomas the Tank Engine themes 😂

Toronto has a Streetcar Museum, located in Milton, a suburb about 40mins away from Downtown, lies the Halton County Radial Railway. Built on an old section of a trolley line that went from Toronto to Guelph, it has lots of vehicles on display in it's car barn, including old streetcars, trolleys, suburban trolleys, buses and 3 subway trains. On the outside, it has a few old stations across the line and rides on old streetcars and an old Suburban electric train, I think that one was part of the London and Port Stanley Railway but I might be mistaken. I wish Southern Ontario still had Electric Trains though. It's a really cool museum and it's all volunteer run.

Loving the Playdays theme on the piano!

Interesting upload Tim, what a remarkable place.

I think the "TIM" bus comes from my hometown of Morlaix (in Bretagne), TIM was the name of the transportation company a little while back (now it's called Lineotim apparently). I'm a little mind blown 😳 How did it get there? Hope you get a chance to visit Morlaix (a dying city with a nice bridge) and the Baie de Morlaix (absolutely beautiful!)

You are a good person. Thank you for your entertaining and educational videos

Thanks mate for this one 🇫🇷

Bonjour Tim!

Brilliant video. Also loving the background Playdays, On the buses and Thomas the tank engine themes hahaha.

Great video Tim

Another great video. And who doesn’t like vintage buses ? Love the Cinzano advert. The gas as fuel was also used by some British buses in WW2.

I've also been constantly enraged that RAPT doesnt have a shop like the LT Museum does in London

Excellent use of the "On The Buses" theme and I love the French twist.

I must admit, I always appreciate the background music in your videos :D Stay safe!

Delighted to catch a few bars of "Oh, oh Den Haag" in the soundtrack as well :)

I visited this museum at their previous location (at the Saint-Mandé depot) in the mid 90s. That place was huge, and the whole collection was shown. Like this one, there was no publicity whatsover and you had to dig to know about it. If I recall, it was only open one or two days a week (better than currently). I was about the only visitor that day, and was able to talk to the museum's curator for up to an hour! (There was only like two employees/volonteers total at the time...). Thanks for this excellent video!! Eric Montréal, Québec. (I'm chasing transport museums everywhere I go)

I sincerely hope Tim can get in to view all of the busses 🚎 and trams 🚊! Cheers!

My sister lives in Chelles! It was pretty surreal to see a RER station that I know so well in one of your videos...